impacts like sea level rise, cause people to move further and further in land. pretty marble. a pressure on environmental exhausted for people fleeing the impacts of global warming. it's survival at all costs. this is one of the most astounding technological revolution . been all of this for make our planner great the day we have to meet the c o 2 emission targets liquid casa, meet metric motion. many to be mind to where people are just talking about windy solar sake that's can solve the problem. it won't, the world of distance in commerce is driving the energy transition is the promise of clean energy and illusion. the dark side of green energy on al jazeera, ah, more than 200 prisoners of war are released as part of an exchange between russia and ukraine. ah,

again, i may vary for again, this is al jazeera, also coming up, the mystery of the balloon flying over the us. china is calling for calm off to what it calls an airship accidentally and to the u. s. s. base for francis meets thousands of south sudanese, super displaced by a years long conflicts and israeli forces wait a refugee camp in the occupied westbank injuring at least 13 palestinians. russia and ukraine of carried out a prisoner exchange. moscow says that 63 of its service might have been released by keith and the cranium. government says that 116 of its soldiers been allowed to return home. according to moscow, among the russians free to those who walk in

a so called sensitive category, the united arab emirates was involved in the negotiations zane bus ravi report style from cranes capital keeps. what we're hearing is 116 prisoners of war have been released by the russians and are back on ukrainian soil presidents office and the coordination, the humanitarian coordination office that works on these prisoner swamps. calling this cause for celebration. but they do say, despite the fact that including today, 37 swaps prisoners swaps have taken place since the beginning of this conflict. there remain thousands of russia of ukrainian soldiers in russian custody. and there remain hundreds of civilians as well who are yet to be returned back to ukrainian territory so far in terms of the civilians. only about a 100 have come home in these prisoners swaps. and in terms of soldiers about just

a little over 1640 prisoners soldiers have returned home to ukraine. winter in negotiations with russia, but what the ukrainians are saying despite the fact that this is a cause for celebration, there is still a long way to go to bring all of the other ukranian citizens in russian custody home. with the reaction from russia, his son of java, moscow, the russian ministry of defense says that these people are now being treated for psychological and medical help. they're able to contact their relatives and it was made possible to get them released to you have to ment, remember that they don't use the word swap with the help of mediation from the united arab emirates. we've seen in the last few months that these releases have become routine where moscow and ukraine exchange prisoners. obviously we've heard

from key that there been receiving more prisoners than moscow. but this has been a case that we've seen a number of times in january. there was a release in december, there were a couple of releases and then going back to september where the releases were facilitate facilitated by turkey and saudi arabia this time around. it's been facilitated by the united arab emirates, the ministry of defense, specifically. and thanks them, and you have to remember that this is a country which has so far not given into any of the sanctions that the west wants to imposed on moscow. we know that the chief mom had been zaid visited vladimir putin and also discussed the issue of you create us secretary of state. and li blinker has condemned china. ascending with the pentagon calls a surveillance balloon over american soil. fetching is urging come, mr. john croft floats over the united states. china says it's

a civilian weather balloon that was blown off course by accident. will the suspect of surveillance balloon is about the size of 3 buses. it usually operates of an altitude of anywhere from 24000 meters to 37000 meters higher than commercial planes or fighter jets. it's filled with helium, and a solar panel is attached to its bottom, which has been visible in the recent sightings, it also carries equipment, including cameras, radar and census. i know tango is a senior fellow of the tie, he institute, he dumps the us accusations that the balloon is for spying. you have a balloon with the size of 3 buses that is apparently floating over the united states. the national weather organization of the united states is confirmed that it's consistent with being blown. i off course over the pacific, down through canada and into the us. the idea that this is a quote spy balloon. the whole point about spying is to gain information by

subterfuge of by not being detected, having a yeah, you know, something that big, that is, ah, you obviously can be seen by the naked eye would hardly qualify as a huge. there was an interesting situation with blankets visit to beijing. he said he was going on the 4th and 5th, but as of the 3rd, after talking to many diplomatic sources, they confirmed that there had been no official invitation meeting without which he could not go to beijing. obviously, beijing was not amused by all of the items of things that the u. s. was doing in terms of, you know, 5 major chinese tech corporations being basically said, you can't get technology, you can't have any kind of investment. i'm talking about taiwan going to japan and south korea and trying to make them focus on china. so yeah,

i think at this point it's, it's quite a, i think lincoln was trying to save face for the fact that he had announced a visit that he wasn't welcome. the head of the roman catholic church is on a historic visit to south sir down alongside the leaders, the anglican church, and the church of scotland. hope frances is meeting people displaced by a year's long civil war. earlier on saturday he met bishops, priests, and other christian leaders as part of what he called a pilgrimage of peace, from a tougher reports from cuba. lo, francis is inside the whole day behind me and he's been meeting people displaced by the conflict. and let me telling him about their experiences. some of them say being displayed since 2013 when war broke out. and the ones here in yuba are staying near the un base the you in compound. they wouldn't be in 2013 because they thought they'd be safe any un soldiers. and they're telling the pope that they thought that they only be there for a few months. but it's been years and years because they just don't feel safe going

home. they say that they want him to urge politicians here to ask the government to deploy the 3 unified army as soon as possible. so that could be protected if and when they return home. and they also say they want the pope to urge politicians to get people here to do more, to walk towards implementing peace in the country. the pope came out and he said to the people, they must stay strong. he knows it's hard. he knows the compet effect of people on the ground, ordinary people on the ground. he said he's going to pray for them and he's going to ers politicians to do more towards peace and reconciliation. the reception has been very, very good. i mean, when they arrive thousands of people lined the streets, willing and eager to greet all of these religious leaders. this is the predominantly christian country and the church has a lot of respect. yeah. and in the past, the church has played a huge role in resolving conflicts between different ethnic groups and different political parties. so people do think that having the po pierre, these other leaders is a good sign. they say that they hope that the politicians or speak to these

religious leaders will listen to them, and enough praise to be put on the president and other politicians to try and resolve the issues here in this country. before his visit to south saddam pope france and spend 3 days in the democratic republic of congo, easter african leaders are meeting in burundi on saturday to discuss an escalation of fighting between the congolese army and m 23 fighters over the past week. at least 450000 people have been displaced by months of violence that i was here was malcolm web has more from bilingual refugee camp just outside the eastern congolese city of coma. thousands of people have arrived in this camp in the last few days. many of them have fled from villages. the m 23 is advancing toward the has taken others have been on the run for 6 weeks or more. having already been displaced once they keep moving each time and $23.00 gets close to them and $23.00 is widely understood to be backed by neighboring rwanda. rwanda denies it. meanwhile,

congos army is widely reported to have been fighting along signed on groups. congos army denies that to the conditions here. a bad people have made shelters from whatever they can, whatever they could carry on. things they found here, rocks sticks and grass, and people who say that they're hungry, that there isn't food to eat. and they're still waiting to get humanitarian assistance. an arctic blast have had parts of the united states and canada with fierce wind is pushing temperatures down. it's the negative double digits that been warnings issued in new york and new england, where the wind chill reached. got this minus 75 degrees celsius of the summit of mount washington. i'll just here as gabriel elizondo is out in boston. it's the coldest morning in this city since 1957. and let me tell you, boston is used to cold winter's. that's nothing new to them,

but this is certainly not normal. given that this we haven't seen these kind of temperatures here for so long right now in boston, it's negative 23 degrees celsius. but with the wind chill factor, it's negative. 33 i celsius here gives you an idea of how cold these temperatures are. and it's not only here, but it see entire new england region of the northeast were about 14000000 people live in some parts of a new england in the neighboring states. we've seen temperatures get down to as low as negative 50 ah, celsius. but what's the real complicating factor here is the wind. we've gotten wind gusts that have gone up to about 40 to 50 kilometers per hour. and that's really causing a lot of these dangerous temperatures. this arctic blast is just come through here friday and is now a, it's getting the worst of it right now in the mount,

washington in neighboring new hampshire. it saw a negative $75.00 degrees celsius. let me say that again, negative 75 degrees celsius and mount washington observatory in neighboring new hampshire. that's the coldest temperatures ever recorded. anywhere in the united states. 13 palestinians have been wounded, alter, and his really raid on a town in the occupied west bank. it's the latest incident, an escalation of tension in which $36.00 palestinians and 6, his release have been killed since the start of the donut. smith's reports from ramallah we're more than week israeli fault is have kept jericho locked down and it's residents at bay, as they search for suspects in a drive by shooting. on saturday morning, the israeli military thought located who they were looking for and rated a refugee camp on jericho's outskirts. a house was hit with an anti tank missile,

and those inside surrendered. according to the military, rock and murmur, houses were targeted as if the residents were criminals, while they were asleep in their houses, civilians you have nothing to do with the incident on mama, no one has been allowed to move freely out of this town of 37000 people in the occupied west bank after shots were fired near an illegal israeli settlement in the area. no one was injured in that incident. it's unusual for so many people to be locked down for this long, but then these are exceptional times in the occupied west bank so far. 36 palestinians have been killed this year in confrontations with these railey military and their a far i. ministers in the israeli cabinet, committed to expanding settlements and making life much tougher for palestinians than it already is. bernard smith, al jazeera ramallah, a jury in the u. s has found tesla found out a long mask, didn't defraud investors with tweets that he posted in 2018. the verdict was

reached out to less than 2 hours of deliberation, or michelson sharif has been vindication for ellen musk the villainy using the social media platform. he now owns to celebrate a common thank goodness, the wisdom of the people has prevailed. i am deeply appreciative of the jury's unanimous finding of innocence in the tesla for 20 take private case. the world's 2nd britches had testified for 8 hours on the witness stand defending his motives for this treat 4 years ago and considering taking tesla private at $420.00 funding secured. probably the court decided not back then in 2018. this wasn't a market moving event, this wasn't something that could be taken as go school when he must tweet it. but since then we've seen a series or situations where read on must cause actually use twitter hours. i saw a sounding board, the tweet center slashes soaring,

but when the buyout failed to materialize, the ship rise fed back to earth that resulted in a class action from investors who calculated their losses as high as 12 $1000000000.00. were disappointed. we're examining options. yeah, look into it, but when the truck comes at a sensitive time for mosque was dominated headlines for his chaotic takeover of twitter o, michelson sheriff al jazeera still to come here on out here us roll anchor marks independence day with a parade, but many people say there's little to celebrate and what a new report says about corruption across latin america. the details coming up ah,

is of course rainy season in se asia that are always areas where it's weather than elsewhere. one of those areas, though not obvious and satellite picture is appearing in peninsula malaysia throughout the day. i think the shells get more and more frequent and heavier, and you may well find some flash flooding down here. otherwise, sensory smarter looks wet, but java, unless you're just the south coast is a dry a picture. now there's rain also falling in shot of it heavy that it should do it this time the year with temperature south the yangtze depressed because of that north. the yanks, he probably higher than they should be as the sun is out and the wind is no longer cold. indeed, there isn't any real cold anywhere. this a little bit of snow because of the you warm water just off the coast to hawkeye. this would be some, maybe in a par itself. little really changes during monday. the main rain goes off shore has to was the south of japan rain, not snow. ok after salvation are largely speaking still quiet evenings for lack of the rainbow, particularly heavy in the north. the northern plain of india air quality is poor.

the same is true in northern parts of pakistan. but when you see rain as they come in, that means showers. so for the whole, or at least a monday, the quality should improve at once again, the snow up in the mountains and up in kashmir, ah, with about diets define who we are. but who are we? if we don't know what way e take in a disturbing investigation into globalized food fraud, people and power reveals long hidden scandalous practices. the def, infiltrated international wholesale markets, and supermarket chains. and asks, what's really on our plates. food in glorious food on to on al jazeera. ah

ah, this is a 0. let's remind you of the minute the saw the russian defense for history says that 63 of its solar spots released by ukraine keeps as the 116 uq radians have been allowed to return home under the deal, which was mediated by the united arab emirates, era, secretary of state anthony blanket has condemned china for sending work. a practicum calls a surveillance balloon over american soil. aging his urging call was the john balloon float server. the u. s. frances, as many people displaced by south saddam's civil war, the head of the roman catholic church is on a historic 3 day visit, alongside the leaders of the anglican church, of the church of scotland. people in trying cause capital

a protesting against the cost of a parade. walking independent states, $550000.00 of public funds, is being used for the military events in colombo. sure anchor is in the midst of its worst economic crisis in history with food fuel, amidst in shortages, l 0, well found is, is the, the irony of a country celebrating the 75th anniversary of its independence. but very much on the siege, like you can see the people behind me essentially the ordinary. she luncheons locked out. we've had a number of senior police officers telling people they can't go clearing them. now this is one of the sort of entrance points to the parade location. obviously, a number of police, a special task force personnel, as well as a military in other areas. now there are obviously water cannons at the ready or with the complimentary water buzzers. and these are in the event that the protest

does that have made their voices heard, and their displeasure heard about what the government is doing, in case they decide to descend the president ronald vicar missing. he says that the celebration is necessary to assure that real anchor is able to celebrate independence. but he himself has admitted that the country's bankrupt, trying desperately to secure an a bailout package from the international monetary fund. and the off the parade essentially is what lots of ordinary people who had tried to go to watch the proceedings ah, are confined to seeing because lot of them found that they were locked out. and this is some of the reasons that people in this country at a time of its worst economic crisis, are taking issue with the military parade. they're questioning as to whether this kind of expense is needed. a number of these people, just a few who remain here who haven't been sent off are done is the question that they

have posed. they tell us that, i mean independence is a celebration of freedom and the reaction that they have had is far from it. people in the oven, pakistani city of shower, protested land, but authorities take action to prevent art attacks by armed groups. over a 100 people were killed in the city on a suicide bomber talking to the mosque on monday, on the zeros or big mr. ah, they came from across the province demanding peace from the focused on the government. after monday, suicide attack on a mosque that killed 101 people, an injured many more political parties, were asked not to fly the flags. instead, white flags were raised. many people here in the northern city of pasha, ver say, they don't trust boxed on military establishment. for some reason have been something from 20 out of 4. this is the need of the time that government for provide us. so peace and our own and o. last, an argument,

demonte is based on the city, and this protest is seen as a popular uprising, similar to the one that followed the killing of 134 students in 2014 natalie bon attack. on a military school. the movement starved the boxed under taliban of supporting towns and villages in the region. and along with military operations. attacks by the taliban drastically reduced your response that these kind of incidents are happening, but no one is taking responsibility. all women and children are suffering. we want bees, we want education, we don't want state sponsored terrorism. every house in this room is leading and we can take any will bodies, blue they chant, we will never accept terrorism. the threat is still very real. security was higher on the protest. on saturday morning police carried out operations against armed groups. they say to tell you, bon commanders were killed and a cache of weapons confiscated, and others were taken into custody. the dog is so just at

a room which we are unable to district. so bobby were policemen, p security installations and some high profile persons industry engine. prime minister shabbots sharif asset focused on is facing an unimaginable economic challenge. the killing of over 100 people seems to be a real turning point in buckets done. for years they struggled suffered with militancy and they don't want to make a return. but unlike before economic conditions, now the worst country has ever faith, which would make it even more difficult to get the vital resources, the police so desperately need that for people here, they don't have a choice that live on the front line of this battle. i thought vague, i'll just show or focus on focused on has band access to wikipedia failings, remove what it calls sacrilege is content focused on telecommunication authority. says the online encyclopaedia failed to comply with a 48 hour deadline to remove unblock the content. he was across pakistan now unable to view the website. wikipedia says the move denies the 5th most populous nation,

access to free knowledge, the summer. he'll g is a columnist and digital rights activist. he says the ban has wide ranging ramifications beyond just limiting pakistani is to information. i think it's quite vague and to be honest, there's no transparency on what exactly the content is. because of which they're requesting, you know, take down an entire blockage of the entire website. there's 6600000 articles and we can pdf in the english language. but because it's one or 2, it's completely disproportionate to block access to it. and the impact of that is really wide ranging. so i think there needs to be more transparency, but also the realization that this is a crowd sourced platform. so anyone can edit articles that so maybe the regulator themselves can edit the article that they have a problem with. instead of blocking the entire platform. i think it's

a preposterous man because it's a basic source of knowledge and information that i could do me education student. you name it any information and it's available on wikipedia that updated in real time. but there's also this economic impact focus on starved flooring reserves and for an investment at a time when you need more for an investment in our sector and industry is really growing and booming when that censorship and balance come and place it impacts investor confidence and it impacts the ability of focused on needs to do business in the sector when tomorrow you don't know what other essential platform or website will be blocked. so i think it really raises economic questions as well as el salvador, the president and i book kelly has defended a newly unveiled mega prison built the house. thousands of alleged gang members, the so called terrorism containment center, has been built outside tech luca, southeast of the capital san salvador, alan fisher reports. it's the biggest prison in the americas and will be home to

$40000.00 inmates, including some of the most violent people on the continent. as the ne berkeley was given, a special tour of the jail at tech a lou built in just 7 months later, he was shown, the 7 security rings from the watch towers and electric fences for the solid, steel isolation sale does normally require them. okay, so it's important to remember that the people that will be held here, the terrorists who will be here are the highest ranking members of the gangs, the historic leaders. el salvador has a gang problem. in march last year, the government declared the state of emergency to fight it previous efforts to break the gangs in el salvador. overcrowded jails haven't worked. even with 24 hour locked don's stripping and humiliating inmates even putting rival gangs into overcrowded sales together. they were still able to run their operations on the outside and smuggling fornes computers, guns even prostitutes. then last year,

police an army arrested more than $62000.00 suspect, the gang members, and those that what with the, that the crack don't. his lead human rights organizations to complain. innocent people are being scooped up. civil rights are being ignored. but ordinary people tired of gang violence, see they're happy with the changes. it's bringing with what i like them because at least now with feel fell before we always thought something would happen to last before we trusted. no one way. now we shall say with 60000 people already in jail. el salvador has 2 percent of its adult population behind bars, the highest incarceration rate in the world. the present will start accepting new inmates in the coming days. they will be guarded by around $600.00 troops and $250.00 police officers. it will say the authorities be impossible to escape. alan fisher. i'll just either denmark leads the way is the least corrupt country in an

annual report released by transparency international boss. its found the corruption that latin america is getting worse, john, home and reports the, the transparency international corruption perceptions index came out this week and its outlook for latin america is blake. no countries significantly improved at school since 2017. the organization says an oval failure by leaders against corruption and strength and public institutions has left the door open. the criminal networks to booley and co opt politicians because were cuba was marla, they will sank to new lows in guatemala case after briefly showing the way food with the united nations back anti corruption commission that was dissolved in 2019 eighties in trouble to with no electric government officials and it's kept to largely overrun by gangs but the absolute bottom of the pile,

according to transparency international. he's been his whaler, ios, the organizations direct to the mercedes, the freighters. why? what get a feeling, in contrast to the rest of the countries, there is no space in which venezuelans can go to ask for justice order writes, the core taishan of the institutions is totaled by the grouping power and the systems for justice under their job on the contrary, they are guarantors impunity. most extreme case perhaps, but it's common to hear in latin america. the corruption is a cancer near impossible through town. in latin america, expectations are so low that people in some countries actually have a saying rather than i see regarding politicians and it means well, he steals, but at least he does something. but if but change if electra started expecting even demanding that the politicians did thing for the without stealing, might things improve in this region?

perhaps uruguay also in the region, shows that they could it's rich ink of light for latin america. it has the same transparency score in the index as canada, when you're away is one of our top for performance in several years. and it is not a coincidence that the country is strong democracy. it's a more a united society and institutions work well. what does that mean? it means that checks on balance is operate well in means that they have a judiciary done is a strong and independent. there's a reward for that. you are quite as the highest per capita income, lowest rate of inequality in latin america. not alone seems we're fighting for if of a government's here. we're interested. john holman, al jazeera mexico city. ah .